Circuits Assembly Online Magazine - Current Issue

News

SAN JOSE, CA – The MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council has finalized its program for the 2nd Annual Medical Electronics symposium: Growth Opportunities for Medical MicroElectronics. It will be held at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ on Sept. 25.

The event will begin with a keynote presentation by Celeste Null, director of biomedical engineering in the Digital Health Group at Intel Corp.: The Future of Biotechnology.

Presentations in the areas of bioscience and medical technologies with a focus on the opportunities for microelectronics packaging will include: Business and Technology Overview; Medical Microelectronic Implants; Virtually Assisted Surgical Training: Concepts, Foundations, and Sensor-based Techniques; Emergence of Bio MEMS for Sensors and Bio-Telemetry; Packaging Medical Electronics; Implantable Monitoring - Packaging Reveal XT and Next-Generation Injectable Monitors; IMEC - Novel "Chip-in-a-wire" Embedding Technology for Realizing Flexible Electrode Arrays for Medical Applications; Advanced Simulation of Medical Electronic Devices and Applications; Enabling Technologies; High-Density Interconnect Flexible Substrates in Medical Applications; Enabling MEMS Devices for the Medical Market; The Evolution of Telemedicine 2.0; Medical Electronic Product Applications; CMOS X-ray Detector Design and Performance and Application in Digital Mammography; Palm-Size Breath Analyzer for the Detection and Monitoring of Metabolic States, and Advancements in Hospital Technology.

To register, contact Bette Cooper, bcooper@meptec.org or visit www.meptec.org.

SANTA CLARA, CA – RadiSys Corp. will purchase certain assets of Intel Corp.’s modular communications platforms business for $25 million plus $6.75 million of inventory and other considerations.

TOKYO — Sony executive Hideki Komiyama was named president of Sony Ericsson, replacing president Miles Flint, who will pursue new business and personal opportunities.

Komiyama was chairman of Sony's U.S. operations and executive vice president of electronics marketing and sales.

Flint, who was president the past four years, spurred the company's success by co-branding the Walkman name on phones, kicking off the so-called "lead experience" trend now copied by other OEMs.

Sony Ericsson is fourth among cellphone vendors, ahead of LG, and could yet overtake Motorola for third, some analysts believe.

Komiyama is expected to maintain the course charted under Flint. The company is expected to expand in the U.S. and extend its high-end lines, analysts say.